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{ Elizabeth Kubler Ros }

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

{ Oprah }

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

{ Joyce Maynard }

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."

{ Ferdinand Foch }

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

{ Karl Menninger }

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

{ Anais Nin }

"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."

{ Rachel Naomi Remen }

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

{ Jack Kerouac }

"The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time. The ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles, exploding like spiders across the stars..."

{ Minot J. Savage }

"We say we exchange words when we meet. What we exchange is souls."

{ Dawna Markova }

"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."

{ Filipino Proverb }

“There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.”

{ Anais Nin }

{ Sarah Ban Breathnach }

"An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer."

{ Mother Teresa }

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

{ Robert Wieder}

"Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport."

{ Sister Hinckley }

"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."

"In conflict, save the relationship."

{ Catherine de Hueck Doherty }

"Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you."

{ Anais Nin }

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

{ Eleanor Roosevelt }

{ Unknown }

"Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live."

{ David O. McKay }

"The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece, or who can write a book that will influence millions, deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will exert an influence throughout the ages long after paintings have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God."

{ Benjamin Franklin }

"Those things that hurt, instruct."

{ Audrey Hepburn }

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone."

{ Howard Thurman }

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

{ LeGrand R. Curtis }

"In our homes, we should exhibit hospitality, and friends should feel welcome. In our home, we preferred that our children search our refrigerator and use our kitchen rather than search the many dark places in the world. Ice cream is better bought early than wished-for later."

{ St Fancis of Assisi }

"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."

{ Jane Austen }

"There is nothing like staying home for real comfort."

{ Anais Nin }

"We write to taste life twice... once in the moment and in introspection."

{ Sophocles }

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."

{ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin }

"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."

{ Anonymous }

"Some will love you, some will hate you, But if you do it right and from the heart...All will watch you" ♥ ♥ ♥

"Despite our difficult circumstances, we chose to be happy."

{ William Ellery Channing }

"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony."

{ G.W.E. Russell }

"The goodness of home is not dependent on wealth, or spaciousness, or beauty, or luxury. Everything depends on the mother."

{ Dieter F. Uchtdorf }

"As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you"

{ Anne Lamott }

"Joy is the best makeup."

{ Marianne Williamson }

“The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.”

{ Julie B. Beck }

"A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without equivocation. She is keeping sacred covenants made in holy temples. Her talents and skills are shared unselfishly. She gains as much education as her circumstances will allow, improving her mind and spirit with the desire to teach what she learns to the generations who follow her."

{ Kahlil Gibran }

“The appearances of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

{ Vincent van Gogh }

"The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

{ Mother Theresa }

"Start by making your own home a place where happiness and love abound, through your love for each member of your family and for your neighbor. Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really love their homes."

{ Eva K. Logue }

"A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away... ."

{ Stephen Nachmanovitch }

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

{ Alice Walker }

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

{ Anais Nin }

"I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals."

{ E.W. Caswell }

"The mother, more than any other, affects the moral and spiritual part of the children's character. She is their constant companion and teacher in formative years. The child is ever imitating and assimilating the mother's nature. It is only in after life that men gaze backward and behold how a mother's hand and heart of love molded their young lives and shaped their destiny."

{ Deepak Chopra }

“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”

{ Eleanor Roosevelt }

"Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."

{ M. Scott Peck }

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

{ Oprah }

"Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know itinside yourself."

{ Oprah }

I've come to believe that each of us has apersonalcalling that's asuniqueas a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeedis to discoverwhat youloveand then find a way tooffer it to othersin the form ofservice,working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. "

{ Henry B. Eyring }

"You ought to find something that you love so much that when you don't have to think about anything, that's what you think about".

Team Edward!

{ Marvin J. Ashton }

"Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don't judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone's differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn't handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another's weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other."

{ Marjorie Pay Hinckley }

"The family is eternal. Love must be nurtured. It must be spoken. We must put away our pride, our haughtiness, our shyness, our misunderstandings, and with humility say, "I love you. Is there something I can do to help you?" You can never be completely happy under any other circumstances."

{ Anais Nin }

"Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap toward him, and he, frightened by her vehemence... instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue."